Billingsley v. State

On original deliverance this cause was remanded with instructions that a hearing be conducted and those jurors, who were excused because of their affirmative answers as to their opinions against capital punishment, be summoned and examined. Further instruction was that the examination should be for the purpose of determining whether or not the excused jurors could, in view of their affirmative answers, nevertheless consider the evidence and instructions of the court and return a verdict of guilty, although that verdict could result in the death penalty, if they were convinced of the guilt of…